Apple Training Series: iWork 08 (Apple Training) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard Harrington, Rhed Pixel
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 13663
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0321501853
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.265
EAN: 9780321501851
ASIN: 0321501853
Publication Date: October 27, 2007
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Product Description
iWork 08
Keynote, Pages, Numbers
Apple's enhanced iWork productivity suite is poised to allow Mac users to create, present, and publish their work with style. iWork '08 offers three powerful applications?Pages ’08, Keynote ’08, and the brand-new spreadsheet program, Numbers '08?for creating everything from newsletters and stationery to polished business presentations to graphics-rich spreadsheets.
This self-paced learning guide, which includes a companion CD jam-packed with practical media files, takes readers step-by-step through essential, real-life tasks for home and office that cover all aspects of iWork '08. The book is both a self-paced learning tool and the official curriculum of the Apple Training and Certification Program, used by schools and training centers worldwide, and is ideal for users of all levels.
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 Iworks July 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pretty basic. Nothing much to learn from the book. I guess it has been made for the first timers to iwork or mac. I did not find it very useful. it was very average
 A take it slow, learn it well approach May 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I finally went back to Mac after 12 years with a PC, and decided to tackle iWork on my MacBook to be more productive in creating teaching materials.
After research, I purchased this iWork 08 training series. I did as the author suggested, and took it step by step from the beginning. Oh, lest I forget, I did install 4 gigs of RAM from [...] so that iPhoto could zoom (it does!). This morning I spent about 1.5 hours on Lesson 1, and started Lesson 2.
I am confident that this manual will serve as an excellent resource for when I am ready to branch out on my own in creating slide presentations and documents.
Why am I confident? The author walks the reader through, step by step, and refers the reader to the lessons you download from the enclosed CD to check your work.
I've read reviews that say this series spends too much time on Keynote. I disagree because it's obvious the skills embedded in Keynote are transferable to the other iWork programs.
I am pacing myself to do about a lesson at a time, and by the time school starts next year, I expect to be "fluent" in iWork.
Thumbs up:)))))))
 good but little on pages May 10, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted to learn how to use Pages and this gave a very brief overview. No information at all about creating your own templates.
Great intro to Keynote May 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After completing the chapters on Keynote I really felt like I had accomplished something, that I could use the software to it's full potential.
After completing the chapters on Pages, it seemed I knew enough to get started and could probably find my way around well enough...I guess.
However the chapters covering Numbers seemed lacking -- dreadfully so. This book placed too much emphasis on how cool it is to embed media in a spreadsheet and not enough emphasis on using Numbers for more realistic spreadsheet-specific tasks; in fact, I couldn't help wondering whether the Numbers projects on the DVD would have been better suited for Keynote or Pages.
Would a typical Windows user choose to use Excel to plan an event? Why, when they could use Word or Access instead? Both Keynote and Pages can handle simple tables and charts. If that is all Numbers can do, why do we need it, other than for it's ability to open Excel files? And there you have it - that is exactly what this book failed to show. The good news is that the Numbers User Guide on the iWork '08 installation disk goes much more in depth on using Numbers more realistically as a *spreadsheet* program.
P.S. I agree with comments by others that this book takes a very elementary approach, but that is what I expected, so I didn't mind. I found the pace tolerable.
 Quite good as far as it goes. March 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is pretty good for basic information about iWork 08. I followed the various examples and picked up some useful tips and techniques. What would be good is if the Apple Training Series had a follow on book that went into more depth. Word, Excel, and Power point have many in depth books and manuals, so far iWork hasn't caught up.
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